Justice Courts
Court records were not available at press time.
Municipal Court
The following list of non-traffic cases, but including DUIs, were heard in Meridian Municipal Court the past week:
• Tahira L. Baesemah, public drunk, $50 fine, $95 court costs, time served
• Brandon C. Beddingfied, possession of controlled substance, dismissed; indecent exposure, dismissed
• Maurice Dawson, trespassing, $50 fine, $115 court costs
• Lakendra L. Haynes, embezzlement, dismissed
• Robert Earl Hersey, trespassing second offense, $200 fine, $95 court costs
• Keith E. Jimison, receiving stolen property, $300 fine, $115 court costs
• Christopher Blaise Johnson, public drunk, $50 fine, $115 court costs, time served
• Hendricas Devon Mills, disorderly conduct, $500 fine, $115 court costs; public drunk, $50 fine, $95 court costs
• Lavonda C. Naylor, giving false information, dismissed
• Katrina Rochelle Robinson, disorderly conduct, $500 fine, $95 court costs; fighting in public, $50 fine, $115 court costs
• Travis Sentell Ruttley, trespassing, $50 fine, $115 court costs; domestic violence first offense,dismissed
• Joseph Keith Scarbrough, domestic violence first offense, $300 fine, $115 court costs; 10 days jail, suspended 10 days, FVIP
• Jacoty L. Sims, possession of marijuana second offense $500 fine, $115 court costs
• Lawrence F. Sims, shoplifting first offense, $500 fine, $115 court costs, 10 days jail
• Kelvin Donald Taylor, disorderly conduct, $500 fine, $115 court costs
• Kimberly Jill Wilder, possession of marijuana, $250 fine, $115 court costs
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High Honor
The flowers and balloons Crestwood Elementary School Principal Kimberly Kendrick received at school Monday were not an early Valentines' Day gift.
Kendrick has been named Meridian Public School District's 2012 Administrator of the Year – an announcement that both surprised and wowed the 17-year veteran educator when made by MPSD Superintendent Dr. Alvin Taylor. -
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Digital system promises better communication
Hopefully in the near future you won't hear someone in the emergency services ask over the radio, "Can you hear me now?"
A digital communications system, one which is being pushed by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), is a few months away and, in some cases, is already in the testing phase in Lauderdale County. -
Inmate escapes custody
Mississippi Department of Corrections officials said Monday afternoon an inmate escaped from custody Friday and is still being sought.
Officials said Johnny Hall Jr. escaped from two Wilkinson County Correctional Facility officers’ custody while being escorted from his father’s wake at the Picayune Funeral Home in Picayune. Preliminary information indicates Hall left the officers and jumped into a waiting black vehicle with a white female driver. -
Citizen’s Police Academy begins today
The work law enforcement conducts on a daily basis is often misunderstood by the general public.
Officials at the Meridian Police Department developed a program to inform and educate citizens on what police do in serving and protecting the population. The program, The Citizen's Police Academy, has been gaining speed for a couple of years since it was first offered. Officials said it shows residents are interested in police work and how it is conducted. - Woman: decongestant brought meth charge in Alabama
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SoMiSPO brings steel drum rhythms to MCC
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About face
Nothing is forever in the military and after a months-long battle to secure a C-27J Spartan flying mission and its field training unit at Key Field and the 186th Air Refueling Wing, it seems all of that is flying the way of the KC-135 tankers that used to fill the skies over Meridian.
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